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The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

Lattice imaging facilitates digital implementation of optical darkfield strategies that have for decades played a key role in the conventional electron microscopy of materials. Applications to the microscopy of periodic structures are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 P. Fraundorf

We calculate the utility of high-frequency squeezed-state enhanced two-frequency interferometry for low-frequency phase measurement. To use the high-frequency sidebands of the squeezed light, a two-frequency intense laser is used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zehui Zhai , Jiangrui Gao

We report on the characterization of candidate light sensors for use in the next-generation Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope project called Cherenkov Telescope Array, a major astro-particle physics project of about 100 telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. L. Knoetig , R. Mirzoyan , M. Kurz , J. Hose , E. Lorenz , T. Schweizer , M. Teshima , P. Buzhan , E. Popova , J. Bolmont , J. -P. Tavernet , P. Vincent , M. Shayduk

We conducted a follow-up study on the analysis of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) mosaic in the high-latitude outer Galaxy presented in the first paper of this series. Here, we focus on the search for alignment…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-10 Ana Erceg , Vibor Jelić , Marijke Haverkorn , Andrea Bracco , Lana Ceraj , Luka Turić , Juan D. Soler

At sufficiently low frequencies, no ground-based radio array will be able to produce high resolution images while looking through the ionosphere. A space-based array will be needed to explore the objects and processes which dominate the sky…

In these proceedings we highlight the primary scientific goals and design of the WEAVE-LOFAR survey, which will use the new WEAVE spectrograph on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope to provide the primary source of spectroscopic information…

Measuring radio waves at low frequencies offers a new window to study cosmic magnetism, and LOFAR is the ideal radio telescope to open this window widely. The LOFAR Magnetism Key Science Project (MKSP) draws together expertise from multiple…

Faraday tomography observations with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) have unveiled a remarkable network of structures in polarized synchrotron emission at high Galactic latitudes. The observed correlation between LOFAR structures, dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 F. Boulanger , C. Gry , E. B. Jenkins , A. Bracco , A. Erceg , V. Jelić , L. Turić

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually analyse the datasets. Automated pipelines to process the…

We use numerical simulations of cosmic reionization and radiative processes related to the HI 21 cm emission line to produce synthetic radio maps as seen by next generation radio telescopes that will operate at low radio frequencies (e.g.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Valdes , B. Ciardi , A. Ferrara , M. Johnston-Hollitt , H. Rottgering

The high demand for 3D imaging in intelligent robotics is motivating the advances of coherent LiDARs towards high performances with low complexity/cost. However, the current coherent LiDARs suffer from the tight coupling between the high…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-31 Long Wang , Liang Hu , Wenhai Jiao , Yaxin Shang , Jianping Chen , Guiling Wu

Advances in the development of free-electron lasers offer the realistic prospect of high-resolution imaging to study the nanoworld on the time-scale of atomic motions. We identify X-ray Fourier Transform holography, (FTH) as a promising…

Cosmic rays are routinely measured at LOFAR, both with a dense array of antennas and with the LOFAR Radboud air shower Array (LORA) which is an array of plastic scintillators. In this paper, we present two results relating to the cosmic-ray…

The pattern of the radio emission of air showers is finely sampled with the Low-Frequency ARray (LOFAR). A set of 382 measured air showers is used to test a fast, analytic parameterization of the distribution of pulse powers. Using this…

Transient radio phenomena and pulsars are one of six LOFAR Key Science Projects (KSPs). As part of the Transients KSP, the Pulsar Working Group (PWG) has been developing the LOFAR Pulsar Data Pipelines to both study known pulsars as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Alexov , J. W. T. Hessels , J. D. Mol , B. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen

Microwave, submillimetre-wave, and far-infrared phased arrays are of considerable importance for astronomy. We consider the behaviour imaging phased arrays and interferometric phased arrays from a functional perspective. It is shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stafford Withington , George Saklatvala , Michael P. Hobson

Aims. An efficient means of locating calibrator sources for International LOFAR is developed and used to determine the average density of usable calibrator sources on the sky for subarcsecond observations at 140 MHz. Methods. We used the…

Interferometric calibration always yields non unique solutions. It is therefore essential to remove these ambiguities before the solutions could be used in any further modeling of the sky, the instrument or propagation effects such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Sarod Yatawatta